John and Rose>Apology
John’s POV:
“John.”
“Huh?”
You and Vriska have been resting naked in your bathtub, and the water is so warm that getting out of this bathtub is something neither of you two want. Vriska’s back is against your chess, and you have been playing with hair for a while.
“I talked with Dave and Kanaya today at Rose’s house.”
“What about?”
“You know, Rose’s big bump, Kanaya’s future SRS, Dave talking about how Karkat is so loud at bed.”
“Yikes, that sounds like him.”
Vriska pauses for a moment.
“Also, we talked about you and Rose.”
You didn’t expect this topic. If your friends’ romantic lives have shown you something is that there is always tension when your lover searches for all the dirt with your previous lover. However, there isn’t any dirt between you and Rose, right?
“Did Rose really smooched a hot waitress?”
Oh, that story.
“Rose was choking on ice cream… and my ring, so it was needed.”
“So, that is what caused you two to split up?”
Shit, you didn’t want to talk about this, and not with your fiancé.
“It was complicated. I didn’t knew that she is a lesbian, and I kind of freaked out when she told me. If I had knew years ago I wouldn’t have dragged us to that embarrassing moment.”
“Hey, you noticed that I play for both teams.”
“That was because you were masturbating with girl on girl movies in my room!”
Vriska turns around and faces you. Her wet hair is dripping over you, and she then presses her breasts against your chest.
“John, I don’t care about what happened between Lalonde and you. A true friend doesn’t hide secrets and wait for them to blow up at any moment. Hell, I was as dumb as you for not noticing when someone is gay. It turns out homosexuality and transgenderism are two different things.”
“What?”
“That would be a story for another time. Now, let’s enjoy the night, my love.”
Vriska and you start making out, and at this rate you and her are not going to get to the bed until midnight.
Rose’s POV:
“This baby is killing me, Kanaya.”
Kanaya is next to you in bed and reading one of your printed books about Welcome to Night Vale.
“Have you tried the relaxation exercises the doctor recommended you?”
“Yes, but it doesn’t stop Kanaya junior from kicking my inner organs. I hope you had a better day than I.”
“I told you that I had a good evening with Dave and Vriska.”
“Yeah. I am sorry you had to hear from Dave how I smooched Pharah from Overwatch.”
“I didn’t knew your type were buff women of middle east descent.”
“Oh god, you are going to make fun of me now that I am a vulnerable pregnant woman.”
“I am learning the art of ironic chit chat from your brother. However, I am curious about the situation that led to that scenario.”
“What do you want to know? That I screwed John’s planned evening by behaving like a bitch and shouting ‘I am a lesbian’ to the fourth winds?”
“I thought it was an exaggeration, but did that really happened?”
You sigh and look at your bump.
“Listen, Kanaya. I was a dumb arrogant girl, and I abused of John’s trust in me. Like, I just wanted an ideal boyfriend to show to my mom and my collegues in order to have a sense of a normal life, and John was the perfect candidate. However, I made both of us waste our youths in a relationship that was going nowhere. Now he is going to marry a not so perfect girl, and I am still having a not normal life by being pregnant of another woman.”
Kanaya kisses you on your cheek.
“Who says we have to be normal? Normal is boring, my dear.”
You give her a kiss back, but in the lips.
“You know, we haven’t done it in months.”
“Rose, I don’t feel comfortable that much with doing it… with the baby so close.”
You unbutton her pajamas and squeeze her breasts.
“They aren’t aware that much. Let’s try it now that I am allowed by the doctor.”
“Agh… Okay, but only with one condition.”
Kanaya takes from below the bed a box labeled “Kanaya’s special box”.
“I want you to fuck my ass, Rose. I want to feel like a woman.”
You give Kanaya a mischievously smile that could rival Vriska’s, and start wearing an eldritch strap on that Kanaya mixed with your pregnancy pants. This is going to be a great night for both of you.
John’s POV:
10 AM
“Rose?”
“John?”
You decided to talk to Rose and settle this problem between you two now.
“Is something wrong, John?”
“No, there is nothing wrong. I just… I wanted to apologize… for everything.”
“Did Vriska told you?”
“Yes, but I have been keeping this inside me for so long that I need to let it go. I know I can be naïve sometimes…”
“Sometimes?”
“Okay, many times. I asked you to be my girlfriend because I had this idea of you and me…”
“You, you weren’t the only one.”
You don’t know how to react to this.
“I loved you, John. I really felt something for you.”
“… What?”
“You were the only one that listened to me ranting about my selfish issues, and helped me when I needed someone to be there for me. I was so blinded by hatred, that the only light in my life was you. You were my best friend, my first lover… and my first kiss.”
“Then, why…?”
“Because, even if my feelings for you were romantic, I knew there was something different about me that you wouldn’t understand. I thought that if I spent enough time with you I would change and have something resembling a full family unit. You, me, and some children we would name after characters from 90s movies and fantasy books. Then, it hit me that for more that I loved you, I couldn’t feel that attraction that I idolized for years. I am sorry that I could’t love you as much as you.”
For years you always thought it was a joke from the universe. It wasn’t a joke, and if it was a joke, it was so awful that you wanted to cry. She really loved you, and you thought she used you as one of her passive aggressive schemes.
“John, are you still there?”
“Yes, I am here.”
“John, listen to me. What happened between us wasn’t a mistake. We learned from that to the best of our ability, and now look at us. You are going to marry a woman that can fully love you, and I am having a family with the woman I love.”
You can hear Rose sobbing from the other side of the line. You also feel that you are choking with all this pain inside of you.
“John, forgive me for being a horrible person!”
“No, you forgive me! I have been a jerk for years!”
For a minute full, you two just stood there crying without saying anything coherent.
“I miss going to shitty movies with you!”
“I miss hearing you read cosmic horror!”
It took some DETERMINATION, but you two finally spoke to each other in a casual way after years of avoiding each other for the sake of the group. You started inviting Rose to your group of movie goers, and she sent an apology sweater she has kept for years in her closet. Now you two can move on to the next stage of life.